7.8/10144 votes#1 - Murray's Tale
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1993
Lisa takes Murray out for a walk and returns with a dog that obviously isn't him. Meanwhile, Paul and Jamie contact the cops and everyone else joins in the hunt for the real Murray. When they finally find him they also encounter people that own the dog Lisa brought home that turn out to be totally different than them.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: N/A
7.7/10151 votes#2 - Bing, Bang, Boom
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1993
Phone calls, noisy neighbors and an invisible mouse being chased by Murray are some of the distractions that Paul and Jamie face while struggling to find romance during a long-awaited evening toether.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Paul Reiser
7.5/10138 votes#3 - Bedfellows
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1993
A suspected heart attack sends Paul's father to the hospital, leaving his mother home alone, until Jamie tries to score some much needed ""points"" with her mother-in-law.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Danny Jacobson
7.4/10141 votes#4 - Married to the Job
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1993
An evening out at Riff's sees Paul complaining about his meddlesome new producer, and Jamie venting about her same old credit-grabbing boss, who happens to be seated nearby.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Russ Woody
7.0/10139 votes#5 - So I Married a Hair Murderer
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1993
Paul is anything but pleased with Jamie, who has too much free time on her hands, and uses it to cut his hair and his film, improving on the original cut.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: N/A
7.1/10135 votes#6 - The Unplanned Child
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1993
Paul's shooting schedule leaves it all up to Jamie to go out trick-or-treating with his seven-year-old nephew, whose extended two-hour visit Paul forgot to mention to her.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Jack Burditt
7.7/10144 votes#7 - Natural History
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1993
What brought Paul and Jamie together? Was it fate or a big coincidence? Jamie's belief that it was fate annoys Paul to no end, especially because Jamie is spending more time with Lisa than with him.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: N/A
7.6/10148 votes#8 - Surprise
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1993
Jamie suspects a surprise party waiting for her at home. However, that's not what has been arranged for her birthday by Paul, who gets separated from her on the subway en route to the surprise.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: Jeffrey Lane
7.6/10136 votes#9 - A Pair of Hearts
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1993
A free weekend in Atlantic City has been mysteriously arranged for Jamie & Paul and Fran & Ira, by Ira's ex-wife as it turns out, now a casino hostess who wants Ira to sign divorce papers.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Danny Jacobson
7.1/10128 votes#10 - It's a Wrap
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1993
An unemployed Jamie is envious of Paul, whose work is something he loves to do. Meanwhile, Paul feels betrayed by his producer Lou, who is now tampering with Paul's latest labor of love.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: N/A
7.0/10130 votes#11 - Edna Returns
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1993
Lisa acquires her 15 minutes of fame under a pseudonym in her shrink's book, and Paul is caught in the middle of the sibling squabble that follows when Jamie takes exception to being called Lisa's overbearing sister.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: N/A
8.0/10149 votes#12 - Paul is Dead
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1994
The death of a Paul Buchman affects Jamie and Paul quite suddenly, leaving them without cash or credit. Meanwhile, Paul is morbidly curious about his namesake.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: N/A
7.5/10126 votes#13 - Same Time Next Week
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1994
Jamie and Paul must endure two months of separation when Paul has to shoot a film in Chicago, returning only for the weekends, weather permitting.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Jeffrey Lane, Danny Jacobson
7.7/10134 votes#14 - The Late Show
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/27/1994
Fran tells Jamie that she may be pregnant, and Paul finds out from Ira that Ira may have gotten someone pregnant, but neither realizes that it is Ira who might have gotten Fran pregnant.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: N/A
7.4/10139 votes#15 - Virtual Reality
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1994
Paul invests in a startup venture, bringing out a virtual-reality system with Ira, after a demo but without consulting Jamie, who reacts calmly to his actions, both real and imagined.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Jeffrey Lane, Danny Jacobson
7.7/10140 votes#16 - Cold Feet
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1994
A Valentine's Day story that begins with Jamie and Paul at Rockefeller Center rink side and moves back three years to the day they finally moved in together and ended up engaged.
Director: Thomas Schlamme
Writer: Jeffrey Lane, Danny Jacobson
7.5/10124 votes#17 - Instant Karma
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1994
Jamie's fortune cookie predicts that bad luck will follow the guilty, but Paul is convinced her luck is being visited on him even as they head for a party at Yoko Ono's place.
Director: Lee Shallat Chemel
Writer: N/A
7.6/10141 votes#18 - The Tape
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/24/1994
Jamie and Paul are horrified to discover that Paul has unwittingly handed over their revealing homemade video to the Family Network, instead of a documentary about a zoo.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Paul Reiser
7.8/10142 votes#19 - Love Letters
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/10/1994
The Buchmans find letters written by former tenants of their apartment chronicling a World War II love story that Jamie feels parallels her and Paul's.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Jeffrey Klarik
7.3/10127 votes#20 - The Last Scampi
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/7/1994
Jamie and Paul refuse to take sides in an incident between their mothers, while Lisa plays both sides to her advantage. Meanwhile, Murray is found to be suffering from his own mother problems.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: N/A
7.9/10160 votes#21 - Disorientation
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/28/1994
The night before Jamie returns to school she worries that Paul might not support her fully. In the morning before Jamie leaves, Paul realizes that he has forgotten to mail her registration.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Jeffrey Lane, Jack Burditt
7.2/10133 votes#22 - Storms We Cannot Weather
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/5/1994
Althrough he is pretty disturbed by Jamie's lenieny to her younger school college, Paul accepts to hang out with them on a blind date that Jamie organised for Nick & Fran. But, while talking about an idea for a movie about the fastest cook on the world, Paul discovers that the waiter at the Riff's is no one else than Mark, Fran's ex-husband...
Director: David Steinberg
Writer: Danny Jacobson
7.6/10138 votes#23 - Up All Night
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/12/1994
Jamie is suffering from sleeplessness because she drank four cuffs of tea full of coffeine while learning for a test. All furious, Jamie urges Paul to spend the night awake with her that leads them to an all-night adventure in the building, from the basement to the rooftop, which ends with a tango together with John Astin, if that's who he really is.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Writer: Jeffrey Klarik
7.3/10130 votes#24 - With This Ring... (1)
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/1994
Paul finds Mark working in a local store. After he meets the owners of the shop, Kim & Tammy, Paul finds out that Mark is learning to pray Zen. While Mark is trying to make him join him in pray, Paul finds out that he lost his wedding ring. Worried about what will jamie tell him, Paul rushes to the house to find him.
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Jeffrey Lane
NaN/100 votes#25 - With This Ring... (2)
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 5/19/1994
The real marriage anniversary arrives and Jamie gives Paul a gift - swiss military knife - and receives a gift from Paul - a machine for making sugar products. Both disappointed with their gifts, they go to a store where it turns out that they have totally different opinions about children. Then, when they have lunch with Paul's sister, the Buchmans try to entertain Susan's son Nah while she's on the phone. Paul realizes that having kids is nothing different than having a dog, but Jamie has totally different opinion...
Director: Tom Moore
Writer: Danny Jacobson
The Best Episodes of Mad About You Season 2
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Young, urban newlyweds Paul and Jamie Buchman try to sustain their marital bliss while sidestepping the hurdles of love in the '90s.
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Murray's Tale" is the best rated episode of "Mad About You" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 144 votes. Directed by Thomas Schlamme and written by N/A, it aired on 9/16/1993. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Bing, Bang, Boom".